The first line of The Treaty of Rome says that the parties are “determined to establish the foundations of an ever closer union” and politicians have continued in the said determination for decades without asking the people for their consent.

That has always been a risky business in the EU because usually when the people can have their say, they reject EU’s outlandish proposals. Such as when the Irish said ‘no’ to the Treaty of Nice, when the Swedes and the Danes said ‘no’ to the euro, or when French, the Dutch and again the Irish said ‘no’ to the beloved EU Constitution Lisbon Treaty (remember that these two treaties are identical in every regard).

Putting proposals to a referendum is thus a much feared move in Brussels. The Eurocrats prefer to proceed by a series of bureaucratic moves. Virtually all EU states have political system prone to crises in the coalition governments. That is why the press is mainly preoccupied by the local political whodunit and does not pay any close attention to the EU bureaucracy — much to the pleasure of the mandarins in the Berlaymont and much to the dismay of the people. The people will, however, express their views with a rather regular pattern when finally given the chance to do so. Continue reading “The case for a withdrawal from the EU has never been stronger”